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Oh god the ‘object oriented’ refactor. I wish everyone who had OO thrust upon them in the early 2000s received some explicit communication that what they were t
by nailer 2y ago
Oh god the ‘object oriented’ refactor. I wish everyone who had OO thrust upon them in the early 2000s received some explicit communication that what they were taught is essentially a hoax and bears no resemblance to Alan Kay’s original intention
- spc476 2y agoSome of that is on Alan Kay because it took him twenty years to realize people couldn't read his mind on the proper definition of "object oriented."
- sevnin 2y agoTo be fair OOP of today is much more similar to Simula then to Small Talk, reading the wikipedia I can see almost 1:1 mapping including the modeling philosophy and all that, people mostly yoinked the name from Alan Kay.
- CRConrad 2y ago"Object" and "orient" are ordinary English words; Alan Kay doesn't own either of them. He may have been the first to combine them as a single term, but he doesn't own that either. (Or, did he trademark it or anyything? I doubt it.) That another definition of it than his came to be the dominant one is just the way things are, not in any way "a hoax".